Time to put a stop to Thread.stop? (original) (raw)

Dawid Weiss dawid.weiss at gmail.com
Wed May 15 08:48:29 UTC 2013

We have JEP 102 to update Process. Some of the low hanging fruit, like Process.destroyForcibly, went into jdk8 so they have been removed from the JEP.

Thanks for the pointer, Alan. I fully agree with the rationale:

"Long-standing shortcoming in the platform [...] Long requested by developers."

[...] the hard part has always been consideration for environments where they may not be a 1-1 mapping.

I think this should be handled by allowing those methods to throw UnsupportedOperationException or some other form of signalling the operation as unsupported. 99% of the operating systems in existence will have (trivial?) support for these operations -- they are the very core of what an operating system is (process management), right?.

Dawid

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